Reflecting and Changing: Physical Edition

I've made a spiritual "resolution", but I don't want to focus on only one side of my triangle.  To find and maintain balance, I am also making a physical "resolution."

I feel like each year I make the same "resolution" - lose weight, exercise more, eat healthy.

I always fall short.

Last year, I was rapidly losing weight because of the HG.

Now, my weight is holding steady, but I don't feel as good as I did a few years ago.

I think part of that is because I'm still recovering from HG, but part of it is because my lifestyle is different from what it was 5 years ago.

Five years ago, we were living in Provo and going to BYU.  We didn't have a car, so I was walking everywhere.  I was walking to and from campus several times a day.  The terrain wasn't flat.  Often times, I'd be power walking to campus so I would make it to class on time.  I was on my feet and moving all the time.

Now, I am not nearly as active.  I teach all day, but I'm sitting while I teach.  J and I mostly hang out at home where there's not a lot of walking or moving around.  My lifestyle is totally different.  And I worry because I want to be able to keep up with J when he starts running around and I don't know if that's something I could do every day right now. 

This is where I need to change.

I need to be active!

This doesn't mean I need to be running 15 miles a day.

It doesn't mean that I can't enjoy peanut butter M&M's once in a while.

I just need to get my bum moving!

I have resolved to set aside time in the morning to pray and meditate.

I am now resolving to set aside time in the morning to be active.

I love doing yoga.  I enjoy walking and am getting to like running.  I like to dance.  

I can do yoga and dance in my living room.  I can walk or run with J around the neighborhood.

I can do all these things.

And I will do all these things!

Whether or not my body changes isn't the object.  

I just want to feel good again!